• Guglielmo Mantica, Francesco Chierigo, Rafaela Malinaric, Salvatore Smelzo, Francesca Ambrosini, Martina Beverini, Giovanni Guano, Alberto Caviglia, Lorenzo Rigatti, Aldo Franco De Rose, Alessandro Tafuri, Davide De Marchi, Franco Gaboardi, Nazareno Suardi, and Carlo Terrone.
• Department of Urology, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy.
• Medicina (Kaunas). 2022 Jan 7; 58 (1).

AbstractBackground and Objectives: To evaluate the oncological impact of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) variant in patients submitted to intravesical therapy for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Materials and Methods: Between January 2015 and January 2020, patients with conventional urothelial NMIBC (TCC) or urothelial NMIBC with SCC variant (TCC + SCC) and submitted to adjuvant intravesical therapies were collected. Kaplan-Meier analyses targeted disease recurrence and progression. Uni- and multivariable Cox regression analyses were used to test the role of SCC on disease recurrence and/or progression. Results: A total of 32 patients out of 353 had SCC at diagnosis. Recurrence was observed in 42% of TCC and 44% of TCC + SCC patients (p = 0.88), while progression was observed in 12% of both TCC and TCC + SCC patients (p = 0.78). At multivariable Cox regression analyses, the presence of SCC variant was not associated with higher rates of neither recurrence (p = 0.663) nor progression (p = 0.582). Conclusions: We presented data from the largest series on patients with TCC and concomitant SCC histological variant managed with intravesical therapy (BCG or MMC). No significant differences were found in term of recurrence and progression between TCC and TCC + SCC. Despite the limited sample size, this study paves the way for a possible implementation of the use of intravesical BCG and MMC in NMIBC with histological variants.

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